Posts tagged brentwood counselor
A Treehouse for Adults

We may have grown-up, but we do not grow-out of our need for a calm and safe space to process our thoughts.  What might have offered a safe haven as a child can be different from our needs as an adult.  In childhood that sanctuary may have been a treehouse.  In adulthood, a place many find refuge and support is the office of a therapist.  Are you ready to know if an adult treehouse might help you get what you want from life? 

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Anxiety: Where the End is a New Beginning

Recognizing or being diagnosed with a disorder is not an end.  In fact, a diagnosis is simply a label that allows professionals to categorize, communicate, and provide effective treatment. A diagnosis might very well be the beginning to overcoming an affliction that is limiting an individual’s ability to enjoy life. Treatment for anxiety comes in many forms, from a quick fix to a long-term strategy.  Quite simply, the quick fix is prescription medication. While medication is sometimes necessary, the more effective, long-term solution is talk therapy.

Typically, therapy will initially focus on learning the function of the anxiety and how something that often is very helpful has become uncontrollable. 

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Clearing the Clouds of Depression

What if the grey clouds consistently loomed over your head for weeks or months on end, and you stopped believing the weather would ever change? This is often how individuals suffering from clinical depression describe their life.  They wake up to grey clouds, they live the day with grey clouds, and they go to bed with grey clouds, the sky above never changes, the forecast begins to always looks the same: bleak. 

The most important thing is that if you or a loved one suffers from clinical, diagnosable depression, grey clouds overhead do not need to be the status quo.  Assistance is available to help clear the gloom and provide the opportunity for the sun to shine.

 

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